Monday, November 15, 2021

The Calculating Stars, Mary Robinette Kowal

 

The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal is sort of an alternate history science fiction novel and is the first "A Lady Astronaut Novel."

Started: 10/16/2021
Completed: 11/15/2021
Recommendation: Recommended
Recommended By: The author of this series is up for a Hugo with the most recent book in the series, so I wanted to read the series (and maybe go to the conference this winter where I could vote)

Review:

The premise is a good one.  As a result of events described early in the book, the "calculators" are women (just like in the early part of NASA) and not machines.  This wedge is used to leverage women into the space program.  The book is well written and it looks at the issues of all kinds of biases.  The romance seems, well, 1950ish, but I wasn't in it for the romance anyway!

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